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Bird flu and SARS may make the headlines, but if you're really worried about getting an animal disease, you need look no farther than the fluff ball curled up on your pillow. Cats, dogs, hamsters and snakes are breeding grounds for all sorts of microbes. Of the 1,400 or so recognized human pathogens, 61% are classified as zoonotic, or naturally communicable between animals and us. Some examples...
...Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Bird Flu and SARS may make the headlines, but if you're really worried about getting an animal disease, you need look no farther than the fluff ball curled up on your pillow. Cats, dogs, hamsters and snakes are breeding grounds for all sorts of microbes. Of the 1,400 or so recognized human pathogens, 61% are classified as zoonotic, or naturally communicable between animals and us. Some examples: Cat-scratch disease (CSD) This is a bacterial...
...Keb’s credit, however, his music keeps enough of the essential intelligence and emotion to power his songs beyond pop and easy listening radio’s usual fluff. His album is a successful version of blues for people who don’t like real blues...
...Sillery were a form of academic boot camp—rigorous, tiring, occasionally dispiriting, but highly beneficial in the long-run. Usually the papers she gave back were covered—and I mean covered—in green ink. She had essentially rewritten my essays, removing all the fluff and the pretentious (mixed) metaphors, leaving behind passable pieces of work. “Your writing suffers from adverbial overkill,” she explained. “And one day perhaps you’ll learn, as George Orwell once said, to ‘never use a long...
...University might have to cut fluff from the budget, but it shouldn’t deprive its students of fluff in the bathrooms...